Quote

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

Joseph Joubert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Excesses
Delights
Deprived
Excess
Delight

More quotes by Joseph Joubert

Image
Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
Joseph Joubert
Image
The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Tenderness is the rest of passion.
Joseph Joubert
Image
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
Joseph Joubert
Image
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
Joseph Joubert
Image
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert
Image
To see the world is to judge the judges.
Joseph Joubert
Image
We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
Joseph Joubert
Image
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
Image
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
Joseph Joubert
Image
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
Joseph Joubert
Image
The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
Joseph Joubert
Image
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
Joseph Joubert
Image
The soul paints itself in our machines.
Joseph Joubert
Image
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
Joseph Joubert